Laura Pascal, LPC

Laura Pascal is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience who helps people manage stressful life moments. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and career concerns. People also turn to her for help with relationship and communication problems. Her practice includes support for those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, and aging-related issues.

Her style is conversational and practical. Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and skills that can be used between meetings. She draws on client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness and narrative techniques are used when they help a person stay grounded or reframe difficult stories about their life.

Laura has particular experience helping people through life transitions. That includes midlife shifts, divorce and separation, returning to work after a break, and exploring questions about purpose. She also supports those facing the emotional burden of caregiving and first responder stress, and she is familiar with veteran and armed forces issues.

Sessions are offered in English and take place with a New Jersey-based LPC. Her practice aims to be affirming for LGBT people and attentive to cultural background and personal values. Prospective clients are encouraged to review session options and scheduling details before booking.

To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs. Laura works with each person to shape a plan that is practical, respectful, and responsive to real-life demands.

How Laura’s approaches translate to online care

Laura uses client-centered methods to follow each person's goals and priorities, aiming to make sessions feel collaborative and grounded in what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs practical problem solving or wants to focus on personal values and choices.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and test small changes in behavior. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into clear steps you can try between sessions. Mindfulness therapy helps people develop simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and stay present during hard moments, which can be useful for grief, caregiving strain, and chronic illness coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps shape what sessions focus on and which methods are used over time.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current online session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find that meeting remotely helps them stay consistent while applying practical skills to daily life.